This document contains a lesson plan for a second year English class focused on places in town. The plan includes the teaching points, aims, language focus, activities and approach. The lesson will develop reading, listening and speaking skills through a dialogue, video and descriptions. Students will practice talking about the past using was/were and yes/no questions. Activities include matching pictures to places, correcting sentences from a dialogue, completing a chart through conversation, describing a local area, and a grammar game to identify mistakes. The plan aims to foster communication and vocabulary acquisition around locations.

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TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE
ALUMNO PRACTICANTE: Michelle Otero Barnes
Período de Práctica: Tercero
Institución Educativa: Instituto Modelo Viedma
Dirección: Maestro Chirinos 795 - Viedma
Sala / Grado / Año - sección: Segundo Año
Cantidad de alumnos: 28
Nivel lingüístico del curso: elemental
Tipo de Planificación: clase
Unidad Temática: 5
Clase Nº: 3
Fecha: 20/05/2015
Hora: 7:30
Duración de la clase: 80 min
Fecha de primera entrega:18/05/2015
• Teaching points: Places in town.
• Aims or goals:
During this lesson, learners will be able to…
- develop their reading skill through a given dialogue.
- develop their listening skill through a video that will be seen.
- develop their speaking skill by describing a place in the rown.
• Language focus: Simple Past – was/were – yes/no questions.
Function Lexis Structure Pronunciation
Revision
- To talk about
the parts of the
house.
- dining room.
- kitchen.
- garage.
- living room.
- garden.
- bathroom.
- bedroom.
- there is/are.
- My father was
in the garage.
- My brothers
were in the
garden.
- I was in my
bedroom.
- The words
kitchen,
bathroom and
dining room.
New
- To talk about
places in town.
- hospital.
- movie theater.
- bank.
- library.
- park.
- station.
- museum.
- station.
- high school.
- Was there a
statue in the
park?
- Yes, there
was.
- No, there
wasn’t.
- The difference
between were
and where.

2. - church.
- there was/were.
• Teaching approach: Communicative. It's the best approach to foster communication
and acquire new vocabulary.
• Materials and resources: Chart, photocopies, pictures, video, game.
• Integration of skills: reading, by reading a dialogue about the topic, speaking by
describing the river coast of our town and listening by listening to a video.
• Seating arrangement: in pairs, looking at the board.
• Possible problems / difficulties and their possible solutions during the class: there are
many interruptions because the secretary or the preceptors have to give messages to the
students, but maintaining them occupied with work will help them not to lose focus.
• Potential problems students may have with the language: there might be problems with
the difference between the pronunciation of the words where and were. Some practice,
like reading and speaking, using questions or statements that include both words will
help students.
• Assessment: their ability to talk about past actions and the places in town.
Routine (3')
- Good morning everyone! How are you today? I'm very glad, I hope you are glad to see
me again.
- Can anyone tell me the date please? I'll write it on the board.
Warm up (7')
- Today we're going to start by watching t a video of a girl who has a band and wants to
tell us what her town is like. In order to help you understand the town, I have brought a
poster with a map just like the one the girl describes, look at it. As in the video you
won’t be able to see pictures of the places, the poster I brought will help you understand
the song better.

7. - Now let’s watch the video.
Development (67')
Activity 1 (10')
- Now it's time to practice! I'll give each of you a photocopy with the pictures of the
poster and the song, so you’ll paste them in your folders. Also, on the same photocopy,
you’ll find the names of the places, which you’ll have to paste below the correct picture.
Activity 2 (15')
- A very expensive statue has been stolen, but nobody knows who the thief is. I'll give
each of you a copy of the dialogue between Detective White and some witnesses. You
can read it in pairs and then read the sentences that are below the text. All the sentences
are wrong, so, according to the dialogue, correct the wrong information. You’ll work in
pairs for this activity.
Mystery at the town
White – I’m detective White. Was there anything strange in this area?
Person 1 - There was a woman near the hospital at half past three. Her bag was very big.
There wasn’t a man with her.
Person 2 - There were two strange people in the bus station at quarter to four. There was
a strange woman.
Person 3 - There weren’t any people in the park at four o’clock. It was rainy at that
moment.
Person 4 - There was a man at the train station at four o’clock. He was in a hurry. His
bag was very big. There wasn’t a woman with him.
Sentences:
a. There was a woman in the park at 3.30.
b. The woman’s bag was very small.

8. c. There were three men with big bags at the train station at 4 o’clock.
d. The park was empty at 3.45.
e. It was sunny at 4 o’clock in the park.
Activity 3 (15')
- Lets continue working in pairs. Some of you are going to receive a kind of chart and
your mate is going to receive a different chart. The idea is that you complete your chart
with the information your mate is going to give you. For this activity, you’ll have to
read the dialogue with your partner and complete it with the missing words you listen.
Chart 1 Chart 2
- Who were there in the park?
- There………some students.
- Yes, there were some women too.
- ……….. there a man with them?
- No, there wasn’t.
- ……….the statue in its place
yesterday?
- Yes, it was, but there were many
people around it.
- But at 4 o’clock the
statue……….there anymore.
- Yeah, and the people weren’t there
anymore neither.
- Who…….there in the park?
- There were some students.
- Yes, there…….some women too.
- Was there a man with them?
- No, there…………
- Was the statue in its place yesterday?
- Yes, it……, but there………many
people around it.
- But at 4 o’clock the statue weren’t
there anymore.
- Yeah, and the people……….there
anymore neither.
Activity 4 (15')
- Now it’s time to speak! As it’s usual in our town, on Sundays we all go to the river
coast and the town centre with friends and family, can you please, in turns, describe me
the place? How many people were there? Was there a statue where you were? Was it
rainy? Was it sunny? Was there anyone with a suspicious attitude? Tell the rest of the
class the details.
Activity 5 (12')
- Well, to finish the class we’re going to play a game! The right half of the classroom is
going to be group red, and the left half of the classroom is going to be group blue. I
have some sentences written on big pieces of paper, but each sentence has a mistake!

9. I’ll show you the sentences one by one; the group that first finds out the mistake will
receive one point. The group that receives more points by the end of the game wins!
a. Hello Mike! Were where you last night?
b. I were at home yesterday evening.
c. You was with your sister at that party.
d. When I was a child, it wasn’t a mall in my city.
e. There were a problem in my high school today.
f. There was a lot of people in the museum this morning.
g. Yesterday, the movie theater were empty.
h. The girl were at the gym last night.
i. I not was at the church last Sunday.
Closure (3’)
- Well, that it for today, I hope you have enjoyed the lesson, see you next class!
Goodbye!

10. I’ll show you the sentences one by one; the group that first finds out the mistake will
receive one point. The group that receives more points by the end of the game wins!
a. Hello Mike! Were where you last night?
b. I were at home yesterday evening.
c. You was with your sister at that party.
d. When I was a child, it wasn’t a mall in my city.
e. There were a problem in my high school today.
f. There was a lot of people in the museum this morning.
g. Yesterday, the movie theater were empty.
h. The girl were at the gym last night.
i. I not was at the church last Sunday.
Closure (3’)
- Well, that it for today, I hope you have enjoyed the lesson, see you next class!
Goodbye!